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Tamara Friebel is an Austrian-based Australian composer and performer whose work explores the intersection of music, architecture and mathematics, most often geometry.

A 2024 recipient of the Austrian Federal Scholarship for Composition, Friebel was composer-in-residence at the Imago Dei Festival (2022), where her choral work Illuminations premiered and later featured at Carinthian Summer Festival (2023) in the collegiate church of Ossiach, and the recording was released, sponsored by the Austrian ÖstMusikfonds. Friebel studied architecture, sociology, and theology at various universities in Melbourne before pursuing composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and architecture in the masterclass of Zaha Hadid at di'angewandte, University of Applied Arts Vienna. She completed her PhD in research on 'Generative Transcriptions', with Liza Lim, on the role of transcribing scores, imagined through architectural forms, composing and writing from emergent trance-like states, and continues to teach and conduct research in the field.

Kaleidoscope of a Butterfly for piano and ensemble premiered in 2025 with Platypus Ensemble in Vienna, with subsequent performances in Wien Modern and Poznań Musical Spring Festival, Poland.
"A deep and dramatic auditory representation of the ballet of the dark quantum realm, mysteriously forming and birthing, and then the joyous flight of new life!" Phil Mollon

Her ouevre currently contains over 150 compositions, and has been presented in festivals and concert contexts worldwide, often in collaboration with leading performers and ensembles. Artistic performances, interdisciplinary cooperations with arts and energetic psychology, public outreach, society events, even fashion shows. She performs live electronics and vocals, and is a multi instrumentalist, in various settings.

Tamara Friebel — current to April 2026